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Cisco Nexus Series Switches

Overview

What is Cisco Nexus Series Switches?

Cisco Nexus is a series of network switches.

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Nexus of the DC Fabric

8 out of 10
December 07, 2023
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We use Cisco Nexus Series Switches for our data centre network to form the leaf spine topology based on VXLAN BGP EVPN fabric. It allows …
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Cisco nexus review

10 out of 10
August 15, 2023
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Day to Day usage, configuration and monitoring, building L2 and L3 architecture for either custumer or our own network. Créating the …
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Video Reviews

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The Data Center's First Choice: Cisco Nexus Review
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Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches Review | The Easy Choice for Data Centers
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It's a perfect datacenter product - Cisco Nexus Series Review
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Starting Price

$49.00

Cloud

Maximum Price

$200,000.00

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Cisco Nexus Series Switches?

Cisco Nexus Series Switches Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Cisco Nexus is a series of network switches.

Reviewers rate Implementation Rating highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of Cisco Nexus Series Switches are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Olivier Desnoë | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Nexus 9000 switches to transport video and audio in replacement of SDI technology, using the IPFM Cisco setup. Media is transported within sites and also across site, as well as with partners.
  • multicast
  • routing
  • time synchronization
  • NETCONF
  • telemetry
  • CLI
Cisco Nexus 9000 has everything you may need.
  • NBM
  • PTP
  • CLI
  • Lower inter-site costs compared to SDI
  • Higher throughput
  • Media is available easily
Juniper has a much much better NETCONF/YANG implementation that I regret. But for transport 2110 media flows, I trust Cisco Nexus 9000 switches.
Netbox, Grafana, Cisco 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 9000)
10
Network team
10
network team
  • data center
  • media transport
  • automation
  • streaming telemetry
  • Netconf
No
  • Product Features
  • Product Reputation
  • Prior Experience with the Product
NBM feature on Cisco Nexus 9000 is a very important feature for us to avoid congestion in our network.
Network bandwith protection and PTP quality are the top most features. So I would start by just filtering the equipments that do not fit these 2 requirements. Then, in this domain, reputation is the also a very important thing to compare. Then, streaming telemetry would be the next item I would compare, as well as network configuration API like NETCONF. Of course price and support would be also important.
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
  • Configuration had to be automated for consistency
  • Rebooting so that TCAM carving takes effect
Start simple, use a central configuration repository, optimize then.
All the cases I opened at the TAC were successfully answered, some of them were very technical. We also have a great pre-sales team.
I don't known exactly the support level we have.
No
all the time!
You can really do what you want with these switches. They are stable and have really a lot of features.
  • Routing protocols
  • PTP
  • Visore.html on NX-API
  • telemetry
  • NETCONF/YANG
  • CLI
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it as the fabric interconnect to some of our on-prem systems, like data storage redundancy, UCS redundancy, etc. Maintenance on this system is very convenient with the hot-swappable components. This system is fully redundant. When a drive fails, the system continues to operate without any intervention necessary before the new drive arrives and is replaced. We notice that any latency is very, very low.
  • Hot- Swappable drives
  • Fabric Connects integrate with various other systems
  • Low maintenance requirements
  • Low latency examples
  • Sometimes excessive packet flooding is a problem, but hard to know what exactly is causing the problem
  • Troubleshooting high utilization levels is sometimes difficult.
  • License issues caused by the swap of chassis are sometimes cumbersome working with the License reps
Cisco Nexus Series switches work well in our hybrid network environment. We have dealt with these types of switches for over ten years and have been very pleased with the performance of the switches. Cisco products have worked well with many of our other computer systems in our data closets. There is a solid confidence in these switches because of ease of maintenance and the quality of technical help available from Cisco reps. One problem we have faced intermittently is getting help with licensing when in a dire configuration change situation. Because licensing looks toward different system components, sometimes a new licensing request is denied because the Cisco licensing rep cannot verify that the company has a license for that piece of equipment, even when we definitely have the license. There has been anxiety in calling several times to get what is needed when we actually do have a license, but just that the Cisco rep has a hard time finding that license in our company name. In network down instances, this inability to identify the licenses we own, is very frustrating and time consuming.
  • Scalability of Cisco Nexus switches is paramount
  • Ease of Management of the Nexus switches
  • Excellent Troubleshooting Tools
  • Redundancy of data operations of these switches is very important
  • Requires very little maintenance which allows our IT staff to focus on other important tasks
  • Confusion of getting a new license file when chassis configuration changes are made is pretty high.
Both the Cisco Nexus Series switches and the Dell EMC SC Series are very robust equipment. The Cisco Nexus Series Switches offer a slightly better ease of management than the Dell EMC SC Series of switches. The Nexus switch has also lasted longer than the Dell EMC SC Series switch. The Nexus series has been one with fewer technical issues over the years as well.
Overall, Cisco has great products and I believe that they believe in the philosophy of a great customer experience. Although there have been a few technical support issues that caused a lot of company anxiety, in most cases, Cisco has gone above and beyond in making a valiant effort to help the customer solve any issues.
In the past, we have had premium support for mission critical systems. In our experience, sometimes premium support is not warranted enough times throughout the year to make the cost justifiable to our stakeholders. It is very important to our management to be good stewards of budgetary items. We would love to always have the best support option, but it sometimes is not sustainable cost.
No
Once I had a licensing issue with Cisco where the licensing rep just could not find a license for a particular module. I spent 4 days trying to get the problem resolved to no avail. I talked to differing levels of managers but no one would budge. I read an article about the incoming CEO whose philosophy was to strive for the best customer service experience for Cisco customers. I looked high and low for an email address for the Cisco CEO and found one. Although I did not get a response from the CEO, I received a response from the guy who was over North America. He contacted me at 8:30 pm at night. He apologized sincerely to me about the run around I had been getting from Cisco employees for 3-4 days when all I wanted was a new license file after receiving a new chassis. He said that he would take care of the problem. In less than an hour, all those Cisco managers who had basically paid no attention to my cries of frustration started calling and emailing me. One of those managers took the reins and reeled in every manager available to help me get the license file that we owned and needed. I became a loyal fan of Cisco products after that because I believed that the words of the incoming CEO about providing the Best Customer experience were truthful. This example made a believer out of me that the incoming CEO was an honest man who cares about the experience of his customers, even the little ones like me and my company.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
we use Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches for our data center and set up a private cloud for our customers.
  • easy to manage
  • reliable
  • effective
  • so far we did not encounter much issues
the connection is ok and we have used it for years without [many] issues. it is suitable for our data center and we use it to connect our servers to set up a private cloud
  • our partner gave a good corporate discount so ROI was positive
Huawei provided good discounts but other teams had encountered issues with their products after deployment so we decided to stick to cisco
Fortinet FortiGate, Citrix ADC (formerly NetScaler ADC)
2
They are used to connect the servers and allow our customers to access the resources within our data centre, and also allow the virtual machines to access the internet
2
They are network engineers and have network knowledge to operate the switches. They also work with the vendors to do routine maintenance and updates
  • Internet
  • connectivity
  • speed
  • we used it as expected
  • can use it to connect more applications
Our engineers are used to this brand and have the expertise to support. We did not encounter major issues with this product so far
No
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Reputation
We have good partner pricing with Cisco and Cisco is also reputable and is the market leader in network equipment. The features are able to suit our needs
We will still stick to the same evaluation and selection process
  • Third-party professional services
We used JOS to implement
Yes
We setup the switches as a base setup and then slowly added more switches as we scale up to support more users
Change management was minimal
The engineers had to be trained on how to manage the switches. Subsequently there was no further change management required
  • Connectivity issues
It is reliable and working as expected
The support was prompt and we did not encounter much issues with them
Yes we purchased premium support. Because our switches are used for operations and there is SLA involved so we needed prompt support if necessary
No
We did some VAPT scans and there were some findings related to their products. We checked with them and they took time to remote in to check
It did not give much problems since go-live and our engineers only need to do routine maintenance and patches
  • management tool
  • configuration of ports
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have leaf-spine architecture deployed with MP-BGP EVPN in our DCs.
  • It's reliable.
  • Loss-less Networking.
  • Unified Fabric VXLAN.
  • VXLAN are mapped to VLAN... it's a very big limitation.
  • In the last 2 years, we have been hit by multiple OS bugs.
It is best suited for DC Networking.
  • MP-BGP VXLAN
  • API
  • line rate switching
  • Best ROI.
  • Reliability.
  • High availability.
  • Unified Fabric Support across DCs
Cisco has the best after-sales support network.
Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000), Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V Series (CSR 1000V), Cisco Meraki SM
50
Private Cloud team
5
4x CCIE individuals
  • Data center network
  • Unified fabric
  • Any workload any where
  • Any workload any where
  • Multicast fabric
Its perfect
No
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Reputation
  • Prior Experience with the Product
  • Analyst Reports
Our evaluation process is comprehensive enough. No change needed
  • Implemented in-house
  • Third-party professional services
LLD and initial implementation
Yes
Two part implementation. First phase was to build vxlan fabric and test it. Second phase adding external connectivity to IP core and end to end testing
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
Every change must be tested in lab before proceeding in production
  • Hardware module failure in one of nexus 9504
MPBGP VXLAN fabirc was implemented with multi vrf bgp over external links to our IP core
  • in-person training
Trainer didn't has good handon experience.. he was bookish trainer.
Never had it
I like to read Cisco live session and configuration guides
It's extensive covers everything
Cisco has best practices guide which we follow
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
No customization done ever.
Cisco's technical support coverage for the software application products and suites that keep your systems and your business running smoothly.
Our Nexus is supported with premium Smartnet. We had opened multiple TAC cases with Cisco got very well supported. it enables us to protect our IaaS Services and overall business.
No
We already have premium support
Yes
It was solved in next update
During tax case. Ciscco always provide best support
Cisco has provided comprehensive configuration guide to cover all aspects for device usability
  • Support multiple workloads
  • Management ease
No
Cisco offer scalable design using there best practices design guides.
Our network is very well design. Any components or device failure. Doesn't affect network availability
Loading time doesn't matter. Loss less switching matters.
  • Network monitoring system
  • Network analytics
  • Protected access management
These are standard integration. It was very easy.
  • No other integration needed
Not applicable
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
No
Cisco support all management protocols and API to supply all type of integration
Use standard protocols and API for seamless integration
Cisco sales team is always available for support
Cisco sales team is always available for support
Usually it's the price which our procurement tackle with Cisco.
Keep your RFP open for all vendors... If you want best price from cisco
Yes
We recently received security advisor from cisco that our is version has major security flow... We immediately planned for upgrade with Cisco TAC support on our side. Upgrade went smoothly.
  • Security patch
  • Multicast fabric support
  • Pvlan support on vxlan
  • We are fine with current release
No
No
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